The Quiet Civil War: Britain’s Unrest Is Already Here! By Richard Miller (Londonistan)

Colonel Richard Kemp doesn't mince words. A man who's commanded troops in Afghanistan, fought insurgents in Northern Ireland, and briefed prime ministers in COBRA meetings is now warning that Britain is hurtling toward civil war. Not unrest, not rioting — civil war, the endgame of mass immigration, manic liberalism and multiculturalism.

Kemp sees a fractured nation where "an alliance of the hard left and Islamist extremists" will collide with broadly conservative Britons, triggering prolonged conflict. He points the finger not just at radical activists, but at hostile states, Russia, China, Iran, who he claims are helping to foster the unrest. Yet Kemp's most damning words aren't aimed at extremists or foreign enemies, but at Westminster itself: a political class so paralysed by short-term electoral horizons that they've allowed the country to drift into open crisis.

"They're like rabbits in headlights," Kemp says of today's leaders. Frozen, bewildered, unwilling to act. They think only in four-year cycles, incapable of the bold measures required to restore order.

And here's the truth: the Colonel may be late to the battlefield. Because Britain's civil war has already begun.

A War Without Guns — For Now

This isn't yet the kind of war Kemp fought overseas. There are no tanks rolling down Whitehall, no soldiers patrolling provincial towns. Yet. Instead, Britain is locked in what can only be called a quiet civil war: one fought not with bullets, but with laws, censorship, and the suffocation of public voice.

The Online Safety Act, fully enforced this summer, has gutted Britain's digital commons. Entire forums closed. Wikipedia pages age-gated. Political discussions throttled by algorithm. It's a censorship regime sold as "protecting children" but wielded as a club against dissent.

Meanwhile, the government prepares to layer Digital IDs on top of this infrastructure. Every online action linked to your legal identity. Every dissenting post tied to your name. A surveillance state so suffocating that 1,400% more Britons have fled into VPNs, building digital barricades to preserve scraps of privacy.

When a population feels silenced by law and ignored by politics, what happens next? Kemp's answer is bleak: people "will feel they have no option but to take action into their own hands."

The Two Sides Are Already Formed

Look closely and you can see the lines drawn. On one side, the rulers: politicians chasing votes, corporate giants controlling 43% of Britain's web traffic, bureaucrats expanding their fiefdoms under the cover of "safety." Their weapons are bans, blacklists, and bills written in Brussels boardrooms and rubber-stamped in Westminster.

On the other side, the ruled: the millions downloading VPNs, the parents furious at migrant-driven housing shortages and crime, the working class left behind by both Tory "modernisers" and Labour technocrats. They don't have tanks, but they have defiance, a refusal to comply, a willingness to withdraw consent from a system they no longer trust.

This is what a civil war looks like in its opening stages. Not gunfire, but fracture. Not blood on the streets, but faith bleeding out of institutions.

Past the Tipping Point

Kemp warns of a future civil war. Professor David Betz of King's College is even clearer: Britain may already be past the tipping point. When the "quiet civil war" is acknowledged openly by both soldiers and scholars, the question isn't if, it's when the quiet becomes a loud bang.

A nation cannot survive indefinitely when its leaders rule by fear of headlines, its laws throttle speech, and its people opt out of the official system en masse. The British state has mistaken silence for consent, but silence is only ever the pause before eruption.

The Coming Storm

The Colonel says he "hates to be right on this." So should we. Yet everything points to his prophecy coming true: the people are running out of patience, the rulers are running out of excuses, and the great lie that "things will be fine" is collapsing in real time.

Civil war isn't coming. It's already here, disguised as law, disguised as policy, disguised as the suffocating quiet of a people no longer allowed to speak.

The only question is how long it stays quiet. The answer according to Professor Betz, and even Elon Musk, is "not long."

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"A retired British Army Colonel is warning that he believes a civil war in the country is now inevitable because politicians are unwilling to take meaningful actions to fix societal collapse.

Colonel Richard Kemp, who has served on the Joint Intelligence Committee and the Cabinet Office crisis centre COBRA, urges that an alliance "of the hard left and Islamist extremists" will clash with broadly conservative British people and that it will lead to widespread prolonged unrest.

Kemp suggests that "together with other causes," these Islamist leftists will "come together to threaten the cohesion and the culture, the entire culture and political existence of the West."

Kemp, who fought counter insurgency in Northern Ireland, served in the Gulf war, Bosnia, and commanded in Afghanistan, asserts that the agitators are "fostered by," and "funded to a large extent, by our international enemies like Russia, China, Iran, and other countries as well."

In an interview with podcaster Conor Tomlinson, Kemp remarks that politicians in the UK are "in a state of bewilderment, they're like rabbits in headlights," and that while they understand how the unrest is being fomented, they are unable or unwilling to put a stop to it.

Kemp says of political leaders that their "horizon is four years," and "They want to keep a state of equilibrium for that time, they want to do what they can to make sure they win the next election."

"They don't want to take the radical sort of action that might be necessary to address these sorts of problems," the Colonel stresses, highlighting mass migration as one major issue.

"There's only so much that I think people can take of that, and they've been very quiet up until now, the people in the UK have not really raised their voices against this, or in a very limited way only. But the more it develops, and it is going to develop more and more, the more unrest we are going to see," Kemp emphasises.

He adds, "they have no option. I'm not encouraging or supporting this, but I think the people will feel they have no option than to take action into their own hands rather than rely on political leaders who are doing nothing, in their eyes."

"They don't want to take the radical sort of action that might be necessary to address these sorts of problems," the Colonel stresses, highlighting mass migration as one major issue.

"There's only so much that I think people can take of that, and they've been very quiet up until now, the people in the UK have not really raised their voices against this, or in a very limited way only. But the more it develops, and it is going to develop more and more, the more unrest we are going to see," Kemp emphasises.

He adds, "they have no option. I'm not encouraging or supporting this, but I think the people will feel they have no option than to take action into their own hands rather than rely on political leaders who are doing nothing, in their eyes."

"I think there is every likelihood, I don't know what the timeframe is, but I would go so far as to not just predict civil unrest, but civil war in the UK in the coming years if this situation continues which I believe it will," he urges.

"I'd hate to be right on this, but I believe that I know there is no political solution to the situation Britain faces today," Kemp further declares, adding "When I say there is no solution, I don't mean there actually isn't a solution, but there is no solution that any of our politicians are willing to take… because they are afraid of doing anything significant."

As we've previously highlighted, these views are shared by London King's College war professor Dr David Betz, who believes the UK is already "past the tipping point," for near future civil war."